# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen3 8B

> Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 33.4.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 33.3 |
| Rank | — | 237 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.